Few people practise what they preach, and no one less so than Mr. Bernard Shaw. Few are more capable of having the best of everything both ways… His dissolvent theories of life and society have been sturdily banished from his personal conduct and his home. No one has ever led a more respectable life or […]
Hypocrisy Quotes
Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.
For neither Man nor Angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through Heav’n and Earth. And oft though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom’s Gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners – let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.
In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men’s own righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make righteousness of their discoveries, […]
It is no fault of Christianity if a hypocrite falls into sin.
